Her Majesty Annabelle

Chapter 4 : Mate

*Annabelle POV*

~Time Skip : 3 Weeks Before Belle’s 16th Birthday~

School is over. It was a grueling year of bullying, doing someone else’s homework, and admire Jacob from a distance. The abuse at home has gotten worse. Now I get hit so hard they leave bruises and marks, but they make sure it’s in a spot I can cover with clothes.

Anyway, it is 3 weeks until my 16th birthday. That means it is three weeks til the time I can sense and meet my mate. Three weeks until I am SUPPOSED to experience my first shift. I can check that one off the list since I shifted at the age of 5. Although I have not been able to talk to my wolf or shift into her since a week after that. Whenever I try I get this HUGE migraine.

I can’t wait to meet my mate. I have hope. Hope that he will love me. Hope that he will get me away from the place. I don’t know how much more I can take.

It’s the summer time and I have been sneaking out to spend time with Stephanie. Otherwise I would go crazy staying in this house, cooking, cleaning, serving, and getting hit.

I have been secretly training with Stephanie. She has been teaching me everything she has been learning in the pack’s training. She is the second strongest female warrior in the pack.

Her dream is to go to the Blue Moon pack for training. Every year every pack holds a tournament and the top 3 winners are invited to the Alpha King’s pack for training. It’s the greatest accomplishment a warrior can have, let alone a female warrior.

But before that training starts Blue Moon holds an annual ball where all unmated wolves sixteen and older attend for a better chance to find their mate. Just so happens the ball is a day after my birthday. Of course I can not go but Stephanie is trying to devise a plan for me to sneak out.

This year the theme for the ball is masquerade. I would say the Moon Goddess is on my side this year. I can go undetected by the leaders of my pack. It will also add mystery amongst the mates.

Stephanie said she already have our attire. But she won’t give me any information. She says it’s a surprise. Honestly I’m excited. I can’t wait to dress up and go to the ball.

*Time skip : Day of my Birthday*

I wake up early because for once in 11 years I am excited!!!!!! Today I turn 16. I have the ability to sense my mate. “EEEEEEE!!! ” i squeal excitedly as I climb out of bed and head to the bathroom to start my morning routine. Today I won’t be wearing my normal attire. I grab my best jeans with a long sleeve form fitting shirt. I asked Stephanie to borrow her combat boots she wore on the first day of school. She will bring them to the treehouse later. So for now I will just throw on my black sandals.

After doing my morning routine. Cooking, cleaning, and serving I head out the door towards the treehouse.

Suddenly I smell this most intoxicating smell. The smell of lavender and chocolate chip cookies. My 2 favorite smells. I tilt my head up to get a better inhale of the smell. When I do I start to follow it. It leads me into the woods to a clearing. Standing there is none other than Jacob. My secret crush.

His body tensed when I get neared. He must have sensed me. As he turns around our eyes meet.

“MATE” we whisper together.

“Wait you can sense I’m your mate?” he asks. “I thought you were wolf less.”

“Yesss I can sense you are my mate”

We stand there for I don’t know how long just staring into each other eyes. In a trance. A good trance.

Eventually he breaks eye contact and the silence. Something I wish he didn’t do. Because the excruciating pain I felt next, I would even wish on my worst enemy.

“I, Jacob Devon Jones, Beta of the Blood Diamond pack reject you, Annabelle Rhodes, as my mate and Beta Female.”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” I scream while clenching my chest. I double over into fetal position.

“Accept the rejection” I hear a smooth and angelic voice in my head.

From the stories I have heard no one has ever accepted the rejection willingly. No wolf has told their human to accept the rejection.

All of a sudden the pain was reduce dramatically. I stood up held my head high with the new profound power I feel running through my veins.

“I, Annabelle Rhodes, daughter of the Beta of the Blood Diamond Pack accept the rejection of, Jacob Devon Jones as his mate and the Beta Female.”

I turn to walk towards the treehouse to meet Stephanie. I walk slowly to gather my thoughts. Wipe my eyes.

“Good job my beautiful daughter. You have a destiny that is great. He was not part of that.”

“Who are you?” I ask.

Suddenly a blinding white light appears in front of me. When the light fills there is the most beautiful angelic woman standing there.

“I am the moon goddess. It is time you knew who you are.”

“What do you mean?”

“Child I will show you somethings.

She walks towards me and put her hands on my temple. Pictures flood my mind. My first shift. My mother’s conversation with my father. My mother putting silver and wolfsbane in my dinner every night. The prophecy is revealed. I fall to my knees and start to sob. Why? Why would my own mother do this to me?

“Jealousy, my child. She did not want you to become more powerful than her. I am going to cleanse your system of the wolfsbane and the silver. And from tomorrow on forward you will not have to worry about it anymore. Do not let hate fill your heart.” She says then disappears.

After speaking with the Moon Goddess, I have ALOT on my mind. I make it to the treehouse and give Stephanie the run down of everything that just happened.

“I don’t even feel like going to the ball tomorrow. Today was a lot and I don’t even feel like being around anyone. You should just go.”

“Uh hun girl nice try but you are going. You have to get out of here you may have a second chance mate out there.”

After 10 mins of going back and forth I have in and told Stephanie I would go. The rest of the day we spent in the treehouse eating snack, watching movies, and talking.